2025 Teacher’s Toolkit

The 2025 Alaska History Day Teacher’s Toolkit provides tips, ideas, hand outs, and timelines, as well as contest basics.

Research Project Overview Unit Assignment

This project overview and timeline, created by Heather Damario, shows how the History Day framework can be adapted for use in a short unit project. Note: Students building a project using these guidelines will likely need to widen their research to enter a project in the History Day contest. Available as PDF and Google Drive […]

Research Project Overview – A.P. course

This research project overview provides standards of assessment and a timeline tailored for an advanced placement classroom. Areas that may need to be updated and customized for your classroom and timeline have been highlighted. Provided by Mrs. Heather Damario.

Research Project Overview – General Education

Created and shared by History Day teacher Heather Damario, this research project overview handout provides criteria and timeline for a fall semester approach to history day. Areas that teachers may wish to update are highlighted in yellow.